Stanford Holds Slim Lead Ahead of Arizona After Night One of Pac-12s

FEDERAL WAY, Washington, February 27. THE first night of swimming at the Pacific-12 Women's Championships featured NCAA Automatic qualifying times galore in the two sets of relays. Meanwhile, Stanford took an early lead against second-place Arizona.

After an extended break that included a few time trials, Stanford's Felicia Lee (1:44.96), Maya Dirado (1:43.66), Julia Anderson (1:45.34) and Andi Murez (1:43.16) turned in a winning time of 6:57.12, while California's Catherine Breed (1:45.55), Caroline Piehl (1:44.78), Melanie Klaren (1:45.46) and Elizabeth Pelton (1:43.16) took second in 6:58.95 as the two sub-7:00 times this evening. USC's Jasmine Tosky (1:45.23), Lynette Lim (1:45.40), Haley Anderson (1:44.82) and Stina Gardell (1:45.83) earned third in 7:01.28.

The top six of the seven scoring relays bettered the NCAA A cut as Arizona (7:04.51), Arizona State (7:05.16) and UCLA (7:07.61) all beat the NCAA A cut. Oregon State took seventh in 7:25.66. Notably, California's B squad of Camille Cheng, Lauren Driscoll, Kelly Naze and Alicia Grima also put up an NCAA A cut with an exhibitioned 7:07.45.

Additionally, Washington State went the first night without scoring as both of its relays were disqualified with early takeoffs.